Build your desk
watch clock
Assemble the watchmaking movement in your desk watch clock
Immerse yourself in a unique experience
Build your very own desk watch clock
Build your own desk
watch clock
When you open your watchmaking kit, crafted with tender loving care, the first thing to do is remove the book packed with fascinating details, skilfully-woven stories and full instructions explaining how to find your way around the over one hundred tools and components included in your DIY watchmaking kit.
Once you’ve done that, simply let yourself be guided through a journey of around ten hours as you build your own desk watch clock – including the mechanical movement.
As you do so, Maison Alcée walks beside you every step of the way, offering constant support – and an incredible DIY experience as you put together your very own desk watch clock.
Assemble your
desk watch clock
For budding makers everywhere
It’s only when they open their DIY watch kit that recipients grasp the full breadth of Alcée’s promise: a true sense of enlightenment as they replicate the craftsman’s touch and experience for themselves the sense of meaning it bestows.
The DIY watchmaking kit itself is a statement of our standards of excellence. As such, Maison Alcée pays as much care and attention to how the DIY watch kit is crafted as to the manufacture of the components for your desk watch clock – right down to the finishings.
The materials used for our DIY watch kit components are of outstanding quality, originating from the Jura Arc straddling the border between France and Switzerland. We’ve chosen a cabinetmaker in Reims
for the design of the DIY watch kit, crafted from noble wood essences.
A watchmaking book
blending watchmaking stories and resources
Our 150-page book, included in the DIY watch kit, introduces readers to the history of watchmaking and the art of watchmaking itself – a really absorbing read! It’s a key part of our DIY watch kit, simply begging you to set time aside and focus on a pastime that will engage your attention like nothing else can.
The book turns the task of building your own desk watch clock into an adventure through the history of watchmaking expertise as you follow the various stages of assembly.
“Building your own desk watch clock is a personal DIY experience as you produce an artefact of your own making”
Build your
desk watch clock
with a manufacture mechanical movement
The manufacture mechanical movement has been developed by Maison Alcée just so that you can bring it to life yourself. The watchmaking movement has been devised with the help of a winner of the Meilleur Ouvrier de France ‘Best Craftsman’ award and watchmaking teachers from the renowned Morteau watchmaking college.
Boasting a fourteen-day power reserve and beating at a rate of 18,000 vibrations per hour, the mechanical watch movement in your beautiful desk watch clock marks out hours, minutes, seconds and the hourly chime. Creating your very own stylish Persée timepiece will immerse you in the timeless art of watchmaking.
Build your very own desk watch clock and bring these 233 components to life with your DIY watch kit!
Elegant styling
blending tradition and modernity
Featuring an hourglass shape symbolising the mastery of time, a watchmaking movement in full view, and a distinctive size that’s a technical feat in and of itself, the desk watch clock embodies the essence of fine watchmaking.
Maison Alcée’s watchmaking movement resembles a wristwatch movement, but on a much larger scale. That means that as you put your desk watch clock together, you’ll gain a fuller understanding of how a traditional watch works.
Build your
own desk watch clock
Tools specially designed for novices
Watchmaking is often referred to as the trade of a thousand tools. Taking on the role of watchmaker also means taking possession of the full DIY watch kit. required to build your very own desk watch clock: a watchmaker’s loupe, tweezers, screwdrivers with unhardened beryllium copper blades, finger cots, a membrane box, a chamois cloth and an oil spike.
“A D.I.Y table watch clock, the model that won the “Audacity Prize” at the Grand prix d’Horlogerie de Genève – watchmaking’s most prestigious awards ceremony – comes in a build-your-own kit”
“Each one uses a large-scale regulator watch movement, especially designed for the kits through a collaboration between French master watchmaker Thierry Ducret, Swiss timepiece designer Antoine Tschumi, and watch horology professors from the prestigious Ecole de Morteau in the French Jura.”
“We had to develop our own movement to enable curious people without watchmaking backgrounds to assemble their own desk watch clock.”
“Exceptional clockmaking designed for aficionados: A house mechanical movement developed by and for Maison Alcée. The case also contains the 233 components of the mechanical movement that make up the Persée desk watch clock, which the Maison Alcée team developed especially for assembly by novices.”
“The tools supplied with each desk watch clock are of the type made for apprentices to avoid components getting scratched or damaged.”
“The desk watch clock they assemble will never be just another watch to them because it carries a deeply personal story.”
“A table clock is a watch with bigger dimensions, nothing that the mechanical movement at the heart of botch is the same.”
“Our movement is entirely visible. We designed the movement in an elongated “baguette” shape to make it easier to understand the function of each component. In traditional watches, the movement is usually circular, making comprehension more challenging. The entire design was carefully considered to ensure users could grasp how their watch works.”
